The World Social Forum (WSF) will be held in
Tunis, Tunisia, from 24 to 28 March 2015. The WSF
2015 will be held at a crucial time for the social movements that want more
justice, freedom and solidarity. The aims and guidelines chosen consider the
political, social and economic changes in Maghreb-Mashreq, and on the African
Continent, and of the ecological and economical worldwide crisis. The
identified aims are only indications to a better support of all of those
crucial questions, and...

The Fight Over
Renewing Rent Regulation and Real Estate Incentives: What's At Stake?
A Planners Network-NYC Forum
Rent Control and Rent Stabilization -- the two major forms of
rent regulation in New York State -- expire in mid-June. Two other
housing-related tax incentive programs also sunset around the same time.
One is 421a, which provides property tax exemptions to developers, but requires
20 percent of the units be "affordable" in most of Manhattan and
other "exclusion zones."...

Representatives of peasants, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fishers and rural workers from around the globe submit a joint declaration on a UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas

Do you know a housing project that’s making a
real difference?
Why not enter it
into the World Habitat Awards?
The annual World
Habitat Awards area great way of identifying and celebrating good
practice in housing worldwide and entries are now open for the 2015/16
competition.
Previous winnershave included projects which
really demonstrate the wider benefits of good housing, for example health
improvements, energy savings or improved community cohesion.Recent winners have...